Men's Tennis Swept at UT-Southern

PULASKI, Tenn. - On Saturday afternoon, the Georgetown College men's tennis team opened a weekend trip to Middle Tennessee with a date at the University of Tennessee Southern. The Tigers struggled to get going on the day, and they dropped the match in a sweep.

UT-Southern (10-2, 2-0 MSC) won all nine matches, but the Tigers (7-8, 2-1 MSC) were competitive throughout the lineup despite the 7-0 loss.

In what would become a theme of the afternoon, the Tigers pushed the Firehawks to the brink at the top of the doubles lineup before falling in a tiebreak. Five of the six singles tilts went to either a third set or a tiebreak, but the Tigers were unable to find a win in any of those five matches, and the Firehawks took the win, 7-0.

Georgetown will finish their weekend journey on Sunday with a 2 p.m. tilt at NAIA No. 16 Cumberland University (7-6, 3-1 MSC).

Doubles Results

Asahi Tetsuya/Shizuya Kubo (UTS) def. Cole Wilson/Parker Clarke (GC) 7-6 (10-5)

Guilherme Cupertino/Nickolas Rosa (UTS) def. Zach White/Tsugunosuke Hirose (GC) 6-3

Felipe Dias/Rage Matcuk (UTS) def. Logan Smallwood/Matt Thomas (GC) 6-4

Singles Results

Shizuya Kubo (UTS) def. Cole Wilson (GC) 6-2, 3-6, 6-0

Martin Cabrerra (UTS) def. Parker Clarke (GC) 5-7, 6-3, 6-3

Asahi Tetsuya (UTS) def. Zach White (GC) 7-6, 4-6, 6-3

Guilherme Cupertino (UTS) def. Tsugunosuke Hirose (GC) 6-2, 7-6 (10-2)

Nickolas Rosa (UTS) def. Logan Smallwood (GC) 6-3, 6-2

Luis Olives (UTS) def. Stephen Taylor (GC) 7-5, 7-6 (10-3)